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I use multiple non-admin profiles for different activities and I think this will ruin my strategy. I always make the first user a local account and never use i
by ryan29 5y ago
I use multiple non-admin profiles for different activities and I think this will ruin my strategy. I always make the first user a local account and never use it for anything but adding normal user profiles.
I log in with my personal Microsoft account on one profile. I use a local account for a work profile that also has a MS365 account added to it (to avoid being joined to the domain). I have a second MS account for a side project. I have a second local account for a second job that uses Google Workspace.
I use Windows over Linux because it’s more convenient. Although that’s only because I’m forced into Office for work. I could probably switch to Linux for 80% of my stuff. I have a Linux install for development, but rebooting to do a quick task is a pain.
I think the government needs to break up big tech. The anti-consumer behavior they’re engaged in because they have no competition is crazy. IT costs for small businesses have skyrocketed in the last decade. Everything is a subscription and costs 3-10x what it used to.
- jenscow 5y ago> I use multiple non-admin profiles for different activities Well, shit me. I've not used Windows since 8 came out. However, I would have loved to have had that workflow for a multiple desktop type thing. Why didn't I think of that 20 years ago? (for a long time, windows has internally supported multiple desktops, but it's not quite the same)
- shawnz 5y agoWindows now exposes the multiple desktops feature in the shell.
- Melatonic 5y agoHighly recommended way to use any flavor of windows going back to way back when - give your admin account a long fancy password and then just rarely logon as that account. Your daily driver is an account with normal priviliges. Also good for Grandma so she can't install a bunch of spyware
- romeoblade 5y agoI do the same thing on Linux. I have multiple different users I use for various purposes. One for Work, Personal, Side Business, and an emergency "break glass" user. I install most applications in my home XDG directory if possible. It helps me have pure separation between work and home life. If I'm on my personal user, I do not have access to work tools, etc.
- kyboren 5y agoIf you're already going to these lengths to compartmentalize, you might as well just run Qubes. It's really not much more mental overhead. Plus you get nice features like different color window borders for applications running in different profiles, properly permissioned inter-profile RPC, virtualized networking ('personal' gets networking from clearnet 'sys-firewall', 'work' gets networking from 'work-vpn', 'project1' gets networking over Tor from 'sys-whonix', etc.), and much, much more.
- Melatonic 5y agoYou can still create local accounts - it sounds like it is just during initial setup they require a Microsoft account and internet access.
- amanzi 5y agoThat's interesting and seems like an easy work-around. Just create the first account with a Microsoft account, and then create your real account afterwards as a local account. Then delete the first account you created and you have no more links to the Microsoft account. Seems too easy.
- anakaine 5y agoTheres an assumption here the deleting the online account will not cause any other issues. Id like to think it is so, but it hasn't been so easy at all times in the past.
- gigglesupstairs 5y agoIf they’re linking the pro license with the logged in Microsoft account, it may be difficult to remove it or one may need to provide a different Microsoft account with a valid digital Pro license.
- argomo 5y agoTrue, but in time it will escalate more, just as this escalation builds on the ones that came before it. Just because a trap closes slowly doesn't mean it isn't a trap.
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